Woven pile fabric.



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM ALLEN MINIFIE, OF LITTLE FALLS, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM H. BEATTIE, OF LITTLE FALLS, NEW JERSEY.

WOVEN PILE FABRIC.'

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 14, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM ALLEN MINI- FIE, a citizen'of the United States, and a resident of Little Falls, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Woven Pile Fabric, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to carpets of the tapestry, Brussels or velvet type, and its object is to provide a new and improved woven pile fabric, which has an exceedingly strong and -durable body and in which the pile threads are securely bound in place.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, which will be more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corree spending parts in both the views.

Figure l is an enlarged longitudinal sectional elevation of the fabric, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

The improved woven pile fabric consists essentially of pairs of upper wefts A, A', a stuffer chain B, lower wefts C, pile tufts D and pairs of binding warps E, E@ The upper weft threads A, A are alternately arranged and extend across the top of the stuffer chain B, while the lower weft threads C extend across the stuffer chain B at the underside thereof. The pile thread for forming the pile tufts D is looped around each upper weft thread A and extends over a pile wire arranged above the non-pile tuft carrying weft threads A, so that when the pile thread is cut only the upper weft threads A carry the pile'tufts D, as plainly indicated in the drawings. The binding warps E, E engage all of the lower wefts C, but the binding warp E. engages the pile tuft carrying upper weft A only while the other binding warp E engages the non-pile tuft carrying upper weft A.

It will be seen that by the arrangement described the pile tuft carrying upper weft threads A are bound in independent of the alternating upper wefts A', but both binding warps E and E bind in all the lower wefts C. As indicated in Fig. 2, the binding warps E and E are arranged on opposite sides of the pile tufts D, and hence by the construction shown and described an exceedingly strong and durable fabric is produced.

In weaving the fabric a special tension or take-up device is required for taking up the slack which would naturally occur in the binding warp E.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A woven pile fabric comprising a stuffer chain, upper and lower wefts extending over andvunder the said stufer chain, pile tufts held on alternate upper wefts, and binding warps, one for engaging each lower weft and each upper weft carrying the pile tufts, and the other binding warp engaging each lower weft and each upper non-pile tuft carrying weft.

2. A woven pile fabric comprising a stufler chain upper and lower wefts extending over and under the said stuifer chain, pile tufts held on alternate upper Wefts, and binding warps, one for engaging each lower weft and each upper weft carrying the pile tufts, and the other binding warp engaging each lower weft and each upper non-pile tuft carrying weft, the said binding warps being arranged on opposite sides of the pile tufts.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribin witnesses.

WIL IAM ALLEN MINIFIE.

Witnesses:

ROBERT BEATTIE, Jr., W. G. MOCLINCEY. 

